Frances Hancock

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The campaign to protect Ihumaatao for its cultural values shows how such landscapes continue to fall through the cracks of New Zealand’s heritage system. Qiane Matata-Sipu

How a bias towards built heritage threatens the protection of cultural landscapes in New Zealand

Nicola Short, Auckland University of Technology; Frances Hancock, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau, and Tim McCreanor, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University

Built colonial heritage represents more than 80% of the sites on New Zealand’s national heritage list. This leaves some 700 years of Indigenous settlement significantly under-represented.
Supporters of the campaign to stop commercial development at Ihumaatao. Qiane Matata-Sipu

Local Māori urge government to address long‑running dispute over rare cultural heritage landscape

Tim McCreanor, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University and Frances Hancock, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

New Zealand is the last major landmass to be settled. One of the sites of earliest occupation is under threat from development, despite its cultural significance for Māori.

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